My Dad has been unplugging everything every night since he had his iPad. But he was never asked to re-enter his password before.

Then suddenly, he was asked the password. I am just curious as to why, because he hasn't done anything different. He doesn't do anything else except for turning the iPad on and off and tapping to start Skype. He is 80 years old and doesn't know how to do anything else. So he wouldn't have cleared cookies etc on his iPad.

He finds typing difficult so we have set the log in to be automatic. But we don't know why it suddenly asks him for the password. If we know, we can set it so he doesn't have to do that. he got frustrated when he is faced with something he doesn't usually expacts...

My Skype hasn't changed its behavior despite my upgrade to iOS 5, and I have Skype on several devices.

Like I said, my account is set to never sign out. Maybe you need to make sure that's how yours is set, too:

Settings > Skype > Go Offline > Never

By the way, in that area, you should have Sign In Automatically toggled on as well.

I'm thinking now that you might not have set up the iPad app (maybe you just loaded it and figured it would default to your iPhone version's settings). But they're two separate apps, so you'd have to set both accordingly.

Maybe I have not reported exactly what I have done when I install Skype for iPad. Yes, I did set everything up again. And never go offline is set and so is automatic sign in. And, I have tested that several times, including turning off the iPad and unplugging it for a little while (trying to simulate what my father insists he has to do every night). And it automatically signed back on the times I tested it.

However, as life will have it, as soon as I left him by himself, he said that they ask for the password when he start the App.

This is why I am asking questions here, trying to find out what could have casued it, so I can set the things I have missed next time I am with him.

Will turning the iPad off, or unplugging it for a period long than say 2 days requires you to supply the password again, no matter what you have set, for example? Or if his Apps automatically download and updates itself when he starts it up, would that cause him to have to supply the password?

My Skype hasn't changed its behavior despite my upgrade to iOS 5, and I have Skype on several devices.

Like I said, my account is set to never sign out. Maybe you need to make sure that's how yours is set, too:

Settings > Skype > Go Offline > Never

By the way, in that area, you should have Sign In Automatically toggled on as well.

I'm thinking now that you might not have set up the iPad app (maybe you just loaded it and figured it would default to your iPhone version's settings). But they're two separate apps, so you'd have to set both accordingly.

If he's turning it off (as opposed to putting it to sleep), he's probably signing it out of Skype at that point. Rarely need to turn off (as opposed to putting to sleep). I turn off maybe once every six months or so, if that.

Not plugging in for two days shouldn't make a diff. I do that because I have two iPads and often don't need to charge for several days, depending on use.

By the way, have you asked him to demonstrate exactly what he does after you leave?

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